President and Creative Director, Image Works
Dana Hutchins is a computer system interaction designer and President and Creative Director of Image Works, a web design and interactive technology R&D firm with a focus on science communication, science exhibit design, user research, usability, and human factors engineering. Image Works clients include IDEXX, Unum, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, U.S. Library of Congress, NASA, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, and Orlando Science Center. In 2005 Image Works was awarded a National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research grant for R&D on software for science exhibits now used at an exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science and other science centers around the country. Dana’s interests include evolutionary psychology, the films of Stanley Kubrick and the novels of James Joyce. As an amateur Joycean, Dana has been exploring the unexpected and rich connections between ancient Egyptian notions of the afterlife and Finnegans Wake, a work Joyce models on the Egyptian Book of the Dead in a way comparable to his modeling of Ulysses on Homer’s The Odyssey.
